I am terribly overweight and I need Help.

There are some very good biological reasons why you are overweight band craving for sweets. It is explained in:

Sugar Craving
Eating Disorders
Depression is a Nutritional Disorder
Depression is a Disease of Energy Production
Silent Diseases and Mood Disorders

The most common silent disease resulting in depression is hypoglycemia. Most people feel better if they adopt the Hypoglycemic Diet. However if problems persist I suggest you ask your doctor to be referred to a Nutritional Doctor, Clinical Nutritionist or a Nutritional Psychologist, for further tests and diagnosis and treatment.

well it seems very strange that you cant control on your diet.

But, yes as jurplesman said there can be many reason why you can't control.

Just find out it and do work on it.

You will be able to loose.

HI buddy,

I can relate to what you are saying as I have battled with my weight for about 20 years and have tried a large number of diets, training in the gym etc. I am a pretty big guy and reasonably athletic too but still about 30kg's overweight.

From my experiance, diets DON'T work. For many reasons but one main one: "Over eating is not because you are hungry", its emotional.

I have recently found something that is working REALLY well for me. Its hypnosys (sp?) There is a guy in the UK called Paul McKenna and he has written a book called, "I can make you thin". He puts the reasoning down PERFECTLY as to why we overeat and there is also some great vids on youtube so have a look.

I started using this strategy on 27th Dec 2009 and went from 138kg's down to 128kgs at time of writing (7th Feb 2010)

For someone to say how its strange that you can't control your eating is evidently someone who has never been over weight.

Best of luck with it bro - its worth a try.

Let me know how you get on

Paul Harrison

I too seem to have no control over my eating - i know it is emotional - but how do i gain control. I have the Paul Makenna book somewhere - it seems it is really working for you - I think he says something on the line of - eat what you want when you want but stop when you are full....

Am very interested in how other people manage with this lack of control over food......

i too have battles with weight for 20+ years, have tried all sorts of diets that i can manage for a few days - lose a bit of weight - feels great - so why cant i continue.

Alison

Fat Boy wrote:Hi,

I am terribly overweight. I do exercise and have not yet developed any obesity related disease.

The problem is that I am overweight because I can't control my diet at all. Even if I try to, I may succeed for 2 days and then can't control on the 3rd day at all. At the end of it, on 3rd day I will more than compensate for the 2 days efforts by overeating till I can't swallow further.

I am addicted to sweet, spicy, oily, fatty food. I just can't stay away from them for a long time. I can try and succeed for some time to stay away from such food, but then the urge to eat them is so strong that I feel like suffering being not able to eat them. I even tried eating small quantities instead of immediately giving up such food but could not succeed as the urge does not go away until I am full to the throat with it.

I am obsessed with food. After I have Lunch, I will start thinking about what will be my next snack, after that snack, I think about dinner and so on. I live to eat rather than eat to live.

Somebody please help me to get out of this problem. Please Help.[list=][/list]

hi
The most effective method for weight loss is reducing the number of calories you consume while increasing the number of calories you burn through physical activity. You can achieve this either by cutting back on your food intake, by increasing physical activity, or ideally, by doing both.

Hi Fat Boy,
Welcome to the forum

It does seem like there's already lot of focus of food, and dieting can sometimes make that worse because it keeps the mind thinking about it even more. Most diets involve a lot of restricting, resulting in a person feeling hungry for a lot of the day. And what do we think about when we feel hungry? It's exactly where we DON'T want the mind to go.

Making certain foods 'forbidden' can also have the opposite effect because we often want most what we cannot have. When something is readily available and permissible, it looses a lot of it's appeal.

That's the idea behind a lot of the stuff in Paul McKenna's - I Can Make You Thin that other's were discussing here. I believe it comes with a free self hypnosis CD.

And if you like the idea of self hypnosis, there's a whole range of downloadable sessions to help control over-eating produced by Uncommon Knowledge.

"I even tried eating small quantities instead of immediately giving up such food... "

I was going to suggest something like that myself, and it might be worth giving it another try. But do ensure that you're supplementing that with something more healthy - not just cutting down and going hungry. This food pyramid might get you started with a few ideas.

Good luck,
Nigel

the one time I was successful in loosing weight was when I went on a low carb high protein, low sugar diet. Didnt worry about calories or nothing though, just those top 3. So that meant I ate whatever I wanted aslong as it was under ( i think hard to remember) i think it was under 27 grams carb, under 11 grams sugar, and then just lots of protein. I ate alot of meat which was awesome bc I love meat, I ate turkey burgers, bacon, sausages, chicken, seafood, ...just things like that and even found some yummy desserts. Ofcourse this meant, wheat bread instead of white bread, wheat pasta if I had to have pasta, and absolutely NO SODAS EVER. I lost weight really fast. What blew it for me was I started working 12 hour shifts at night, and one day was so tired, I needed caffeine and had no choice but to grab a soda, and BAM my wonderful diet and self control was broken, and this lead to Oh maybe one donut, and ok Ill eat fast food today, and it went to hell from there. So try that diet above, i didnt even work out and still lost weight, thing is DO NOT give in to anything, otherwise it will be for nothing. Now I have a hard time getting back to that diet and its hell for me. Also Mesotherapy really really works!!!!!!!!! It breaks your fat down and your body kinda eats it away, and its very safe. I lost my baby weight from having a child, that way. What stops me now from going back to that, is its about 200 bucks a session, and i personally needed 4 of them, and I dont have 1000 bucks to drop on that at all, or any time soon But when tax return comes, you bet im going back to that. Look it up online, i swear by this. good luck to you!

Sounds like you really need some self discipline. At some pooint we all need to take a little responsibility for ourselves.

Hi Fat Boy,

1 thing you should do is ask your parents to stop buying all candies and things like that sugars, and replace them with fruits like oranges, apples etc, but most importantly - do not try and eat as little as possible, your body needs nutrition, and eating 5 small meals a day can help lose weight too, you need to eat quantities of certain foods to lose the weight, try resisting as much as you can, and if you find yourself holding some sugar or oily food, use all your power to throw it away. I hope I helped in anyway.

Hey,

I was wondering what your eating schedule is like. Do you eat breakfast and three meals a day? In what environment or situation do you usually eat? What are feeling when you eat (happy, sad, bored, nothing)?

I still struggle with weight and exercised a ton, but it didn't help to drop pounds. It is good for health though.

If you are worried that you are terribly overweight and you think you need help, there are lot of things that can help you. My advice is , you need to find some weight loss program. There are weight loss camps that offer different kinds of programs for both kids and adults that provide unique methods to get fit while having fun doing it.

And doing things like losing your weight with fun is the best!

perhaps you should join "Jenny Craig". They provide counseling as well as you prepared daily meals.

I have few advices for you.
Eat 3 glass of water before every meal,
Chew food well before swallowing,
Avoid oily things,
Take fresh fruits salads,
Avoid tetra juices, they have chemicals in them,
Do join gym or adopt some physically activity.
I am sure they will worth.

Hey buddy, You should avoid the fat rich and protein rich foods and eat the diet product... You should also have some sort of the exercise like cardio and walking also helps you in morning time.... Use the creatine and fat burner also like the green tea... Drink natural water in excess quantity and have Organic foods in your diet almost....